Downtown Champaign’s Kessler Optical has been selected as one of the few retailers in America to offer extremely limited supplies of frames designed by Blake Kuwahara, a designer certainly on the cutting edge of glasses design. Once these frames …
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Urbanalove and Neutral Cycle hosting showing of Wizard of Oz next Friday
Urbanalove and Neutral Cycle are partnering to present the very first outdoor film series show of the Summer, featuring the Wizard of Oz, hosted in the parking lot of Busey Bank in Downtown Urbana. Of …
Free speech, Trump supporters and peaceful protest
Boswell finds it hard to find solace with all the insane things happening in the world right not, but by his last thing, finds a little room for hope.
Polyvinyl Records kicks off 9th Annual Garage Sale
Our own hometown record label, Polyvinyl Records, is hosting their annual Garage Sale RIGHT NOW! This sale, which happens online, features a ton of items that are marked down due to shipping errors, damage or …
City of Champaign Public Works announces Move In/Out service and website
If you’ve been out at all lately, you’ve probably noticed a large amount of people walking around, staring at their phones trying to catch Pokemon on a video game. From a purely observational perspective, new …
The Land Connection hosting Bastille Day market today
I know, I know, France just lost a heartbreaker of a game in the Euro 2016 finals against Portugal on Sunday. The good news for Francophiles is that July 14th is historically Bastille Day, the …
Illini basketball lands national top 30 prospect Jeremiah Tilmon
It’s about damn time we get some good news on the basketball front. Just today, ESPN reports that Jeremiah Tilmon, a top 30 ranked prospect in the country for the 2017 graduating class of basketball …
Jean Thompson featured in The New York Times
Renown author and Urbana resident Jean Thompson’s latest book, She Poured Out Her Heart, has been reviewed by The New York Times, arguably the most prestigious journalistic entity in the world, proving once again the national relevance …
Habitat for Humanity announces two new builds to celebrate 25 years in C-U
It is no secret that Habitat for Humanity does some great work in Champaign-Urbana, but I had no idea that they had been going strong for an entire quarter-century! Next year, they’ll celebrate by constructing …
You can explore C-U in Pokemon Go and it’s awesome
If you were a child growing up in the early 2000’s like me, you were probably infatuated with Pokemon, the game that we all played on our Gameboys for a solid 4-5 years of childhood. …